WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington City, D. C., August 9, 1862.

His Excellency FREDERICK HOLBROOK,

Governor of Vermont, Brattleborough:

Your quota of 300,000 militia is 4,898. Regulations for draft will be forwarded to-day.

By order of the Secretary of War:

C. P. BUCKINGHAM,

Brigadier-General and Assistant Adjutant-General.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington City, D. C., August 9, 1862.

His Excellency F. H. PEIRPOINT,

Governor of Virginia, Wheeling:

Your quota of 300,000 militia is 4,650. Regulations for draft will be forwarded to-day.

By order of the Secretary of War:

C. P. BUCKINGHAM,

Brigadier-General and Assistant Adjutant-General.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington City, D. C., August 9, 1862.

His Excellency EDWARD SALOMON,

Governor of Wisconsin, Madison:

Your quota of 300,000 militia is 11,904. Regulations for draft will be forwarded to-day.

By order of the Secretary of War:

C. P. BUCKINGHAM,

Brigadier-General and Assistant Adjutant-General.

MADISON, WIS., August 9, 1862.

Honorable SECRETARY OF WAR:

I have taken measures to have the militia enrolled immediately. The recent orders have given a great impetus to recruiting. I desire authority at once to receive three-years" volunteers after the 15th until I shall be ready to draft. With such authority Wisconsin will probably need no drafting, is such volunteers are credited to me upon the draft. Give me this authority immediately.

EDWARD SALOMON,

Governor of Wisconsin.

MADISON, WIS., August 9, 1862.

General C. P. BUCKINGHAM,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

You say volunteering for new regiments will close after 15th unless otherwise ordered. I earnestly urge that it be otherwise ordered. In a large part of our State, whence a great many volunteers will come,